1938-04-27 — Page 7

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY:

APRIL 27,

Every Time You Powder Your Nose You Grow Younger

GIRLS' BEAUTY

BUDGET

By ANDREW KIDD

GIRLS, cosmetics are good for you.

Dr. William James O'Donovan, the Harley-street dermatologist, gave this opinion in a High Court case recently.

I consulted Dr. O'Donovan's writings in the medical Press for the reasons. They are:

soap:

Cosmetics clean the skin with less irritation than any

Replace the grease in the skin that may be removed by too strenuous washing or be deficient through old age; Act as a protection against the assault of wind and weather;

Provide a vehicle of colour that gives a great psychological tonic to, both sexes_

EMPIRE NEWS

INDIAN MINISTERS RETURN TÒ POSTS

"It is right always to remember," wrote Dr. O'Donovan in The Practi- Sabouraud, of Paris, that he would

tioner, "the statement of Professor

almost prefer bad creams and bad cosmetics to none at all.

'For lo has noticed, as havo others, that the skins of actresses as a class look younger than those of their contemporary sisters." Dangers of skin irritation and disease through the use of beauty preparations have been grossly ex- aggerated.

Mrs. Grundy still promises the modern girl an ugly old age through

-SAYS SKIN SPECIALIST

Personalities of Old Hongkong

SAILOR BEFORE

MAST WHO BECAME CHIEF MAGISTRATE

"HAT

By T. Paul Gregory

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15.30 Songs by Elsie Carlile. Little Drummer Boy (Noel & Pelosi); So Many Memories (Woods); Star Gazing (Symes, Nelburg, Levin- son).

12.40 London Palladium Orches

Amina (Lincke); Animal Antics- Novelty Intermezzo (Wark); Longing (Haydn Wood); Vivienne (Finck); Wedded Whimsies-Humorous. Fon- tasy (Arr. Alford).

INSTANCES TONY PROVEITE MAN'S CRAMERARD has

AS WELL AS AN ISLAND OF GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY CAN BE ELUCIDATED BY CASUAL REFERENCE TO THE RICH FUND OF INCIDENT WHICH CHARACTERISES THE FIRST DECADE OR TWO OF ITS HISTORY.

Those whose careers were suddenly cut short by either accident or disease were more numerous than those who gained wealth and fume.

If, however, we are trust the old annals of

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Hongkong, there was a considerable percentage of the latter who made the most of their sojourn in the East and, from obscurity, climbed to eminent heights.

One of these-and one, too, who is typical of these Britons, who first settled here was Mr. Charles Batten Hiller, who from the years 1813 to 1856 occupied a number of important offices in the Colony.

Mr. Charles Batten Hillier was born in England about the 'year 1826.

pointment came. Calcutta.

10 Time and Weather. 1.03 Carroll Gibbons & Illa Or I'm Building Up To An Awful Lel Down-Fox-Trot (Mercer & Astuire; These Foolish Things Slow Fox- Trot (From 'Spread It Abroad'), Orpheans with vocal chorus; Take My Heart-Fox-Trot; You're

Not The Kind Slow-Fox-Trot....Carroll Gibbons

Savoy

Hotel and the Orphcans with vocal There's

a Ring

Around The section (Cole Porter)....Carroll

W. Green): Nymph Gibbons & John W. Green Duet) accomp, by The

by Their Boy Friends; Some Other Time-Fox-Trot; Fatal Fascination--Fox-Trot (From Ship Gibbons and the HotCarroll Cro

Orpheans with Vocal Churus; Jerome Kern-Medley.... Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans with vocal chorum.

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy S

Cnte') Savoy

Errant

(Plano

1.40 Beethoven-Quartet Major, Op. 18, No. 2.

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Weather and Announcements.

In

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The United Provinces Minis-pores clogged with too much powder. he was a sailor before the mast. impartial story of Mr. Hilller's career/ Dellbes)....Symphony

ters

their resignations and returned to their posts. The Governor, Sir Harry Haig, and the Congress

Pant,

have Premier, Pandit issued a joint statement on the subject of political prisoners.

The Governor's refusal to release

have withdrawn

as

esc wire

ncome.

justice

or modicum of the law he knew. course, their resentment was of no avall; for Hilller was Chief Magis

Played by the Flonzaley Quartet. trate, and as such he was determined

2.05 Orchestral. Practically nothing is known to remain as long as no further up

Variations ("Coppelia"-Delibes); of his antecedents, except that

Waltz Of The Hours ("Coppelia"- History does not present a very

Orchestra "That is nousense," a Harley-

He was probably familiar with as Chief Magistrate. One record conducted by Clemens Schmalslich, street specialist told me. "It is

2.15 Close Down. the China coast at an early age, announces

that he was such

6.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. Impossible to clog up the pores of

stickler for toadying io his but his presence in Hongkong

7.9 Dance Musia. the skin.

Major Caine, that he was

Quickstep-Smarty (From 'Double "Cosmetics, as a rule, are extreme-dates from 1841--the year inci-

blased his judicial

in

decisions, Whilst or Nothing

Slow Fox-Trot-Little ly beneficial and the dangers are one dentally when the Island was another passage lauds him for his

Heaven Of The Seven Seas....Victor first ceded to the British Crown.

administration of

aver and Silvester

His Ball-Room Orches in a million.

Chin- as. the DOCTORS' VERDICT

He was at this time, a young man

ira; Fox-Trots The Dipsy Doodle: After all. Jublice (From 'Every Day's A Holl- "The greatest care is taken by the in his late teens, but so well versed all political prisoners convicted of makers of all cosmetics to eliminate was he in the intricacies of his calling it is rather a moot point; but we | day)....Nat Gonella & His Gror

do know that he was unsparing in his gians with vocal refrain by Nat Go- efforts to

to enforce what imperfect ornella; Waltz-The Girl In The Allee any ingredient likely to be an irritant that he had already risen to be second

"Plucking the eyebrows, how- ever, should not be overdone in

Itlement which appealed to him; for that Arst decade. One of them was Little Patchwork with vocal :

There was something about the set-dinances that were in force during Blue Gown; Fox-Trot-The Pretty Quilt....Jack Har- case it causes local inflammation.

Ordinance, No. 5 of 1847.ris And Hig Orchestra nuthorised corporal punish- teala by Sam "Don't try to remove freckles. he determined to forsake the sea for the Police

Browne to the the more prosale vocations of the

Fox-Trots to the

the extent of typical landsman.

100 stripes to Don't

Ever

(From freckle-remover is known

Rhythm Fits first job was that of a clerk in be administered with a cane or rat- in the Clouds'); You're A Sweetheart medical profession.

...Roy Fox the firm of Fergusson. Leighton & Co., tan." Major Caine, himself was a (From the Film)..

And but this proved to be a temporary strict disciplinarian, and the whip His Orchestra with vocal refrain; one as this mercantile house next year was the "all sumcient cure" for all Thanks For the Memory (From 'Big manner of crimes and misdemean-Broudcast of 1938'); You Took The went bankrupt.

And Hillier, as his protege Words Right Out Of My Heart (From proved an apt pupil,

*Big Broadcast of 1938)....Roy Fox & His Orchestra with vocal refrain by Denny Dennis,

terrorist acts was the cause of the Ministers' resignation.

The joint statement issued to-day is as follows!

discussion We

have had a full between ourselves about the present situation and recent developments. We have arrived at agreed clusions and the Ministers accordingly resuming their duties.

The

MARRIAGE

No

MORRISON-RATTEY. At St. An- drew's Church, Kowloon, on Tuesday, 26th April, 1938, Peter, only son of Mr. and Mrs. D. T.

Mary Morrison, Greenock. Adelaide, only daughter of Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Rattey.

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con-

are t normal

prisoners, cases of certain classified as political prisoners. have cen individually examined, and the Governor will soon be issuing orders on the advice tendered to him by his Ministers to remit the unexpired the sentence in each case portion and to order their release.

being The remaining enses Individually examined by the Minis-Many of the sin troubles as ter concerned and appropriate orders cribed to the use of cosmetics are will be similarly passed thereon with- really due to over-exposure to the in a short time.

are

sun.

C08-

The verdict of Harley-street is that the money spent on melles gives an adequate divi- dend in terms of health and fit- neas.

averave of Office girls spend an

mate,

SOON MADE FRIENDS

ours.

BIASED JUDGMENTS

7.32 Closing loanl Stock Quota-

Mr. Hillier, although apparently rendering decisions satisfactory to tlens. the bulk of the Chinese population,| lion

did not always merit the approba-

of. the English

The closure of the firm threw Hillier on his own resources, but he seemed to have been such a bluff, hearty young fellow that he had no

7.35 Variety. difficulty in making friends. These,

Vocal with Orchestra "Rosalie" in that limited community of early

community,Selection (Cole Porter);,...New those versed in the

com- Mayfair Orchestra Vocalist: Al F Howl- Hongkong were men who were al-

of the law. They were ty: Trumpet Sol

Solo Elfriedë (Swift); ready making names for themselves

Capricciosa One was none other than Sir Henry ceaselessly calling attention to the La

(Reis) ....George in the settlement of the Colony. Pottinger, who seemed particularly biased judgments of the Magistracy, Swift (Trumpet) with Piano Ac impressed with the ex-mate; for he and, what was worse, were outspoken companiment; Vocal Show Boat

forthwith Clerk in the in their remarks that the Chief Magis-Can't Help Lovin' Dat appointed him

Dat Man (Hom- 2nd trate did not know "B from bull's merstein

& Kem)....Marie Police Court,

Burke and the Mississippi Sextette foot" legally speaking. It was here that he was to meet foot"

have

been extremely un-with Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra It must with Major Caine, the Anglo-Indian

the day to be compelled to plead side Of You (From 'Broadway Gon- minent part in his later career.

In the meantime, Hillier

(From before u Court wherein the adminis-delier 1; Lonely Gondolier trator of justice was as naively in- Broadway was attempting to administer as the Solo-Martu Eggerth Film Melodies nocent of the purports of the law he Powell with Orch. Accom. Piano

Fred Stein (Piano). most callow apprentice clerk in a lawyer's office.

connection, and the resolution /3s. per week on beauty; the middle. /oMeer; who was to play such a pro- noying to those trained barristers of cond. by Berman Finck; Vocal-Out-

Gondoli")....Dick

"We have also had a long dis- cussion on the mutual relations be tween the Governor and his Minis- ters. We have discussed the recent statement of the Viceroy, together with the views of Mr. Gandhi in this

was ap passed at Haripura about the resig-class woman about Ts.; the society nation of the Ministers and the pre-woman pays as much as £2 for plying himself might and main to the vious statement made by the Viceroy Kilded 2oz. pot of face-cream which

Save made the

most to have seems last summer. There is no reason to any chemist would sell her under an- mastery of the Cantonese tongue, and

for 29. Od. over the foar

the other name

rtest interference with

mendable progress in the shortest legitimate functions of responsible counter,

possible time. A year later he ap- pears to have mastered it well enough Time after time. the shortcomingsments.

ses: for from❘ of Mr. Hillier were brought to light. for all intents and

hoses;

sensational rise The first Chief Justice of the Colony, son (Baritone) accompanied by Nura that date begins

Judge John Walter Hulme and Al-Kanis (Piano). torney Generul Anstey were vocl-

the

The

any

ΟΣ

Ministers.

Bombay Budget-Introducing the

Budget Bombay Provincial

Minister, Mr. N. R. Pinance Sarker, observed that it was framed solely in the interest of the masses, and would strain the financial re- sources of the province to the utmost. The

deficit of revenue

nearly £300,000, out of a total revenue 30 times that sum, was estimated in the coming Snancial year to be due to purely non-recurrent expenditure on new liems. Fortunately the defell would be covered by the cash, balance from the current year. CANADA

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NEW TAXES FOR ALBERTA

Edmonton.

"You Must Buy German” Order

Powerful efforts are being made to ensure that Germans living in European countries bay nothing but German goods and thus provide funds for rearina- ment purposes.

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com

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce.

8.03 StudioJ. McNaught Thoni-

(Kor-

in office. His series of promotions

1. A Song of Thanksgiving (Allit- are perhaps the most rapid of any to be found in the annals of the Colony, ferous, in their condemnation of his sen); 2. For and High The Cranes He was in speedy succession: Clerk methods. Anstey, moreover, once Give Cry (Korbay); 3, Shepherd See of the Police Court, Assistant Magis- characterised Hillier's dispositions "as Thy Horse's Foaming Mane frate, Sheriff, Coroner. Chiet Maris the most slovenly and careless that bay); 4. The Rocking Chair (Arun- trate, Member of

dale). the Legislative he had ever seen.”

Londori 8.20

Relay —Topical Council, and member of the Schools'

ADMIRED BY CHINESE ·

Gazette'. Committee.

Regardless of what the legal pro- A fortnightly review of things at fession obviously thought of him, Mr. Home. Presented by Pascoe Thorn- It is indeed remarkable that he had, Hillier was more than popular with ton. With the old of the Publicity Counas his crities often stated, "no quali- the Chinese portion of the community. 8.50 Musical Comedy Selections

The Gold Diggers of 1033-Selec- cil of German Industry and leading cations whatsoever, except for the When he was appointed Consul industrial and exporting Arms, an knowledge of Chinese which he had General at Bangkolc, in April 1850, tion....The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra organisation called "Heimatdienst acquired in a comparatively short and his departure to his new post directed by Henry Hall with vocal Fatherland Service has been formed time." Whatever it was, he seemed hecame imminent, the Chinese rest-chorus; Mercenary Mary, Vocal Gems Columbia Vocal Gem Chorus and agencles are being set up all to be able to impress his superiors, dents of the Colony mat to do him over the world.

also

IMPRESSED SUPERIORS

A

Chinese

on the value of securities, there are at least 25,000 in this coun-takes such gusto in painting out, was hestece puan hairs, such abuses, and to elicit truth where one

unstained as

Five agencles will be established and one is Inclined to think that he honour; for they sincerely felt that with Orchestra; "Crest Of The Wave

England....Edgar Emes (Baritone) A strictly orthodox Budget was in Britain, It is stated, and will carry must have been a "mighly good yes- they had lost, a warm and straight-| (Hassall & Ivor Novello): Rose Of

As contemporary account stated:

{'s aling no pɔrujtuaɔ) presented to the Alberta Legislature extensive stocks of goods, including man"; for not only Major Calne, but forward friend. to-day by Mr. S. E. Low, Provinciali motor cars, vacuum cleaners, ter- Sir John Davis and his successo! Of this (his pro-Chinese militude)

John Bowring, were highly Treasurer. It contains no new Social tiles, stationery, fashion articles and pleased with him. In fact, the whole they seemed to have been well aware Credit features,

long proccasion was formed a Magistrate from whom they will but a formidable food-stuffs.

secret of his success, as Mr. Norton- A special approach is to be made Kyshe in his illuruinating History at the temple in Taipingshan, which receive as much justice. His inti-

Hiller's realdence, mate knowledge of the number of new taxes, including a!

to housemaids and cooks, of whom of the Laws and Courts of Hongkong" proceeded to Mr.

by bands and bearing language and Chinese customs, more

*** over, enabled him to keep down especially mortgages, farmlands and other Alberta property.

try.

due solely to his "devotion and un-two "Normally the scheme would be swerving subservience in things in are used in the religious processiona A tax is imposed

hampered by heavy Import duties, general to Sir John Davis and to his of the goals-one chair containing a Ignorant of the language would surely mineral rights and wild innds. The 2 which would raise the price of good immediate chief, Major Caine."

basin of water, the other a Jooking-

DIED OF DYSENTERY per cent. succession surtax is raised sufficiently to make them too costly Such a criticism must have been glass, implying that his character was by 10 per cent.. and income-tax on for Germans living in this country.

Mr. Killer left the Colony on May corporations is increased.

The deficit in the current

This is discounted by a subsidist-the actual truth; for with these two as pure as water and as

to him by the Chinese, and a gilt

a allt Singapore. After his arrival at Bang-

The proces" to goining the goodwill of the Siamese as he had done in Hongkong implying to

to the

Chinggo

amongst the Chinese. He was on irreparable

the verge of making his career in PRICKLY PEARL CLEANING

The sentiments expressed by the diplomatic service one truly worth- Secretary of State for the Colonies. AGENT sakli "There is no way at present

It was not entirely unopposed; for Chinese community were echoed in a while, when he was taken by dysen- many of the European residents re-emoller way by the foreign residents, tery, and died. on October 14 In which these can be met, nor under SYDNEY-The prickly pear.seems garded is confirmation much in the who realised that whilst Hiller's Bangkok harbour aboard the Ameri

here he had where Patreon of Une can we refund the destined to come into its own as a light of a bolt from the clouds. In knowledge of the law was a

conveyed

for

treatment. rates are based on the

› debt of the' province, - Inlarost |♥radlalor cleaner, following discovers | their frankly, expressed opinion, they quantity; still he had so capably ship Don Quixote

but also filled his high office that of the low at the Australian Technological thought it not only amazing but also bared on the capacity of

much dim

Charlos Batten Note The name of Pope estimated cost of the operation Museum Research workers there the sheerest effrantary to confirms in culty would be experienced in finding Hillier commemorated the

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have developed a liquid from the mich gehigh; onlee a man who not one to take his place, MA barrister Colony in one of its smaller thorough= of the Bodial Credit Board and Com- leaves of the fruit that is capable of only had no legal qualifications what may be procured, they said, "Who fores Hillier Stresk Incidentally, «mtation le Increased from: £10,000 to removing all "fur" from car radiators soever; but who was diso" largely will dispense to the Chinese more two of his sons Also achieved success-

rippy and baljaka and engine boiler som varje blased, in its interpretation of what law; but whi are not likely to have? (ful careers in Horikkong. **

Ascal tion system in force, involving more powerful supporters, Hillier's career glass. An address was also presented 10, 1850, by the P. & O. steamer

tablet bearing testimony of

of their kok, he applied himself as assiduously year is estimated at £313,800, with than £40,000,000 a year, by which in the Colony was assured.

mucked through

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